David Walker asked:


If you are going to learn to play poker, then you must learn to play Texas Hold’em. Before you jump right into a game, take a moment and study the following tips:

1. First, before you step into the world of an online Texas Hold’em poker room, decide what you feel comfortable wagering. Never put more money into your online account than you can comfortably afford to lose.

2. Don’t ever get into the habit of chasing loses. If you do, you’ll inevitably find yourself making bad plays, such as calling or raising when you should fold.

3. Play small tournaments or ring games before you jump into the larger tournaments. Players with a lot more experience than a beginner will dominate in these games. They read players well and can quickly determine what the best possible hand is.

4. Take notes on other players when you’re playing. You will have plenty of time to do this as many players take their time in making proper play decisions. It’s smart to take notes on the other players every time you play because you are likely to come across them again in another tournament. Use what you have learned about them, against them.

5. Practice reading the flop, the turn, and the river. Know what the best possible hands are at any given time.

6. Do not play loose poker online. Your bluff will be called.

7. For the most part, while learning to play online Texas Hold’em, play the top ten starting hands, and play a tight game of poker.

8. Avoid playing multiple games at a time, your better players don’t do it and you shouldn’t either.

Above all else, have fun and learn how to play your hands by watching other players in tournament play. If players show their cards at the end of the hand, make quick notes and try to learn their betting patterns.



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Sveinung asked:


For many people poker is a fun way to blow off steam on a regular basis, with a few close buddies around the table, maybe have some drinks and chips around and maybe–just maybe–get a chance to separate them from some of their hard earned money. It is a pleasant enough distraction, one that is sometimes just the thing to take your mind off your boring, old office job and even just to take off the edge. Many people have made a weekly ritual out of this and regularly gather in one of the player’s houses. Which particular house they play in may switch around every week, no doubt to keep the objections of the long suffering significant others at bay! In fact, the weekly poker night has become something of an institution, regularly depicted in films and television programs and being mirrored in real life. After all it is fun, good entertainment, its cheap (well unless you regularly play for high stakes of course!) and it is a good way to keep in touch with your circle of friends.

Many people however, those who like to live on the edge of life sop to speak, are all to willing to take this humble game of cards to the next level. Not for this special breed are the penny ante games around the kitchen table where it is more a social gathering than a cutthroat game of wit, will and steely determination. For these elite who breathe a rarefied brand of air, becoming a professional poker player is the only thing that will do. These are a select group of people who are akin to vicious, bloodthirsty sharks, ever on the lookout for the weak, the meek or the otherwise inexperienced for whom they will gladly offer the privilege of taking their money. In fact this analogy is probably where the term card shark was taken from.

If you are one of those people who have previously only looked on from the sidelines, amazed by the sheer bravado and brutal efficiency of these poker gunslingers, and are now wondering how to develop your own arsenal of good poker playing strategies in order to swim with the big boys, Poker Nutz just may provide you with the key to enter this exclusive club. This a collection of e-books, step-by-step videos, and audio training programs that combined will unlock the “underground secrets” that was previously only the sole privilege of the top poker sites and elite poker hustlers around the world. There is no longer any reason why these lucky few should be the only ones who have access to these money making secrets, and with the help of these guides you will unlock the secrets too. In fact, the numerous tips and tricks that you will pick up from these guides stand to change the way you play the game forever. Not for the meek hearted or the wishy-washy, Poker Nutz is for the serious player who wants to improve his game immeasurably



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Daphne Greene asked:


Surfing History:

During Captain Cook’s third expedition to the Pacific on his trusty ships the HMS Discovery and the Resolution, he made the first European visit to the tropical islands of Hawaii. During his second trip to Hawaii one of his ships were stolen by the local Polynesians. He made an unsuccessful attempt at kidnapping one of the high chiefs in order to force the return of his boat and was killed by the tribe.

Lieutenant James King was then put in charge of the Discovery and was given the responsibility of finishing James Cook’s journal entries. It was during a return voyage to Hawaii that James king wrote two full pages describing the Hawaiian’s honored pastime of wave surfing:

But a diversion the most common is upon the Water, where there is a very great Sea, and surf breaking on the Shore. The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the Swell of the Surf, & lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plan about their Size and breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, & their Arms are us’d to guide the plank, thye wait the time of the greatest Swell that sets on Shore, & altogether push forward with their Arms to keep on its top, it sends them in with a most astonishing Velocity, & the great art is to guide the plan so as always to keep it in a proper direction on the top of the Swell, & as it alters its direct. If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much prais’d.

Thus the world slowly began to learn about what would soon become one of the most popular and most widely practiced sports in the world.

Poker History:

Poker, just like surfing, has its roots based in ancient societies. Nobody is quite sure where the exact origins of poker lies, but there are several theories. It is most likely the result of a mixture of various games from all over the world. Most scholars agree that the name most likely descended from the Irish game Poca or “Pocket” in English. It may have also come from the French game poque which descended from the German pochen (meaning to brag as a bluff). Yet, card games have much more ancient origins.

The earliest known playing cards are believed to have come from Central Asia. The Chinese began using paper dominoes so that they could shuffle and deal them with a greater ease than real dominoes during the 10th century. Four-suited decks also evolved in the Moslem world and were imported by Europeans before 1370.

It was during the 14th century that Mamelukes from Egypt brought cards with them from their native land into Europe. Playing cards are said to have originated from tarot cards although the emergence of tarot is still unknown to this day. What is interesting is that modern day card games actually originated from cards that were used for mystical divination.

Similar?

What is interesting about the histories of surfing and card games is that they their origins are both rooted in ancient cultures. Surfing with the Polynesians and card playing with the ancient Egyptians. Both were used as methods for connecting with the divine.

In Hawaii surfing was originally an activity saved solely for the king who was like a god on earth but eventually it became an activity for many people. Surfing wasn’t even a solo sport most of the time. Oftentimes up to 20 people would be on a single plank trying to ride waves as a way to not only enjoy themselves but to prove their worthiness by showing their mastery in the sea.

Tarot cards were a way for practitioners to divine the past present and the future with the aid of spirits. It was a skill that was mastered only by a privileged few and was sought after by all classes in order to help them make decisions about their lives.

Both of surfing and card playing, especially poker, are similar in the way in which they exploded in popularity during the late 20th century. Surfing started to become popular in America during the 1950’s and 60’s after a slew of well known surf videos hit the big screen. Its popularity continued to soar, but truly took off in the 1990’s after Bruce Brown released his second film “The Endless Summer II”. “The Endless Summer”, released in the 1960’s, helped spark the first big surf boom and he did it again with his sequel thirty years later. After the movie “Blue Crush” came out, surfing also began to increase in popularity among women.

Poker has a similar history throughout the 20th century. By the 1960’s Las Vegas had already garnered a reputation as a musty Mafia haven. It was during these years in smoky basements and heavily guarded tournaments that legends such as Doyle Brunson began earning a reputation as “Rounders”. The 1990’s were the years in which poker truly became one of the most widely played games in the world thanks to the advents of Internet Poker and the World Series of Poker being broadcast on ESPN. Nowadays one can hardly flip through the channels without seeing at least two different poker tournaments going on.

The similarities between poker and surfing does not end with their history. The next articles in this series will review some of the finer details of these two activities and will show just how similar they really are.



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